>There is no tape device and I can't give it 'file:/home/amanda/dumps/' >because it tries to parse that as host:device!
Huh? Did you actually try "-d file:/home/amanda/dumps/" on the command line? What did it say? I just looked through the code and I don't see it parsing that (although I could easily have missed it). >Jeremy Wadsack John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]